Grooming device.



PATENTED SEPT. 19, 1905.

I'. K. MOSELEY.

GROOMING DEVICE.

APPLI GATION FILED MAR. 11. 1905.

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Specification ofLetters Patent. y

Patented Sept. 19, 1905.

Applicationled MarchlL-l905. Serial No. 249,632.

To all whom if mtr/y concern: v

Be it known that I, FRANCIS K. MosELEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Owensboro, in the county of Daviessand State of Kentucky,have invented a new and useful Grooming Device, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to grooming devices; and it has for its object tosimplify and improve the construction and operation of this class ofdevices.l V

With these and other ends in View, which will readily appear as thenature of the invention is betterunderstood, the same consists in theimproved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts,which will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed outin the claims.

In the accompanying drawings have been illustrated simple and preferredforms of embodiment ofthe invention, it being understood that nolimitation is necessarily made to precise structural details thereinexhibited, but that the right is reserved to any changes, alterations,andmodifications to which recourse may be had Within the scope of theinvention and Without departing from the spirit or sacrificing theefficiency of the same.

In said drawings, Figure lis a perspective View of a grooming deviceconstructed in accordance with the principles of the invention. Fig. 2is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 2 2 in Fig. l. Fig. 3is a sectional detail view taken on the plane indicated by the line 3 3in Fig. l. Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views illustrating modifications.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are indicated throughout bysimilar characters of reference.

Thisimproved grooming device while partaking in some respects of thenature of a brush adapted especially to operate upon the limbs of ahorse is also in the nature of a massage implement for the purpose ofreducing swollen limbs and for preventing the same,

for the purpose of removing wind-galls, and

for other purposes which will readilysuggest themselves.

The improved grooming device may be.

a plurality of transversely-disposed or other suitably-arranged rubbingmembers, the nature of which Vmay be considerably varied.

. A simple form of the device illustrated in Figs. l, 2, and 3 of thedrawings shows a strap made of textile material, such as duck,

V.said strap being provided with folded and voverlapping edges 3 3, asbest seen in Fig. 2, so as to form a fiattened tube. An auxiliary strap4 of similar material is secured by stitching or in any other suitablemanner upon the tubular strap 1 in such a manner as toform a pluralityof flutings or pockets5 5, which constitute `the rubbing-surface. Thehandles 2, secured at either end of the device, may be composed oftubularV strips of material, as 6, containing grip-pieces 7, of wood orother suitable material, and having their ends secured by stitching, as8, in the ends of the tubular strap member l.

' A grooming device of this extremely simple construction possessesnumerous advantages which will be readily understood by practicalhorsemen. For the purpose of grooming the limb of an animal it isextremely convenient, the operator being enabled to manipulate the strapwhich partially encircles the limb of the animal with great rapidity andwith excellent results. The flutings 5 5 are flexible, and yet somewhatstiff material will constitute'a superior rubbing-surface. Hair and dirtwill Work in between the flutings, from which it may afterward be easilyremoved by simply shaking the device, and the side of the strapunprovided with tlutings or projections may be utilized for finishingthe operation. For preventing and reducing swollen limbs as well as forthe purpose of removing wind-galls this device will be found extremelyconvenient, owing to the facility and convenience as well as therapidity with which it may be operated to give the parts operated upon athorough massage.

Under the modification illustrated in Fig. 4 the rubbing-surface isformed by strips l0 of material such as leather, secured by stitchingtransversely upon the strap l. Under another modification illustrated inFig. 5 strips 11, secured transversely upon the strap 1, which is inthis instance represented as being composed of a single thickness ofmaterial, are provided with bristles 12, which may be of any desiredstiffness and which will of course constitute a very effectiverubbing-surface.

It will be evident from the foregoing that this invention is capable ofbeing modified in IOO IIO

numerous ways without departing from the spirit thereof, and I desire itto be understood that the strap which constitutes the base 0f the devicemay be of any appropriate material and may consist of one or morethicknesses; that the handles may be of any desired construction and maybe connected with the said base in any suitable manner; that therubbing-surface may consist of integral strips either of solid materialor iuted or tubular or they may be provided with bristles, and that saidstrips constituting the rubbing-surface may be disposed transversely,diagonally, or in any other suitable and convenient manner.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is-l l. A groomingdevice comprisinga flexible strap, handles at the ends of said strap,and a iiuted rubbing member secured upon the latter.

2. A grooming device comprising a tubular ieXible strap and an auxiliaryexible strap, said straps being connected at intervals and the auxiliarystrap being fluted between the points of connection.

3. A grooming device comprising a pair of flexible straps suitablyconnected at intervals, one of said straps being fluted between theconnecting points.

4. A grooming device comprising a tubular strap, tubular flexible handlemembers having their ends secured in the ends of the tubular strap, andgrip-pieces in said tubular handle members.

5. A grooming device consisting of a ilexible strap, and rubbing memberssecured transversely upon said strap in parallel relation one toanother.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aixed mysignature in the presence of two witnesses.

FRANCIS K. MOSELEY.

Witnesses:

M. G. LEVY, J. Oris PARRISH.

